(2007-08-21) — The Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. Carl Levin, said today that the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is “non-functional” and should be ousted within days.
Although Sen. Levin stopped short of calling for a unilateral invasion by Senate Democrats to overthrow the Maliki government, he said his party would work with Iran, Syria and “other regional friends to form a coalition of the willing who share the goal of regime change in Iraq.”
“Maliki has destabilized the Muslim world,” said the Michigan Democrat, “and he should leave now and take his foreign occupation force with him.”
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1 Darthmeister // Aug 21, 2007 at 9:48 am
The Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. Carl Levin, said today that the government … is “non-functional†and should be ousted within days.
I thought for a moment Levin was speaking about the Democratically-controlled U.S. Congress. What have they done the last seven months?
2 Maggie // Aug 21, 2007 at 9:48 am
Senator Levin and his cohorts have already succeeded in overthrowing the Maliki govt.The Democrat Partyhas cried defeat from the very beginning.It was just a matter of time.
God Bless America.
3 Maggie // Aug 21, 2007 at 9:51 am
Mig,
See note for you on the Hillary thread.
4 conserve-a-tips // Aug 21, 2007 at 9:57 am
I just checked on Drudge to see if the story of Levin’s comments was on there and noticed the headlines, “Dean Downgraded!” I had this fleeting response, “I thought that started in 2004 and is continuing on a daily basis.”
I’m still looking to see if Scott is making fun of real comments.
5 beekabok2 // Aug 21, 2007 at 9:59 am
Can
A
Really
Liberal
Legislator,
Ever
Validate
It’s party’s
Nonsense?
Not this day/week/month/year
6 da Bunny // Aug 21, 2007 at 10:28 am
Considering that Levin and his shameless ilk have done nothing but give aid and comfort to the “insurgency” in Iraq with their constant defeatist drumbeat, what is surprising about this buffoon’s current “comments?” The one thing about imbeciles like Levin, Schumer, Boxer, et al that does amaze me is this: These people are all Jewish, and countries like Iran and Syria have stated their goals of wiping Israel off of the map, not to mention ridding the world of Jews, in general. Just what part of “Jew-hating islamofascists” don’t they understand? It makes their liberal stances against the WOT even more senseless…
7 Fred Sinclair // Aug 21, 2007 at 11:12 am
beekabok2 - Very well done, Carl Levin with his manifest disability(severe brain damage - probably from parents; damaged DNA will produce a liberal most every time)
Heirborn Ranger
8 gafisher // Aug 21, 2007 at 11:15 am
Carl “Troop Scourge” Levin is still surrendering the Vietnam War. He’s Michigan’s pennance for being such a beautiful place to live. Well, him and Stabenaw and Granholm — it’s a really beautiful place …
9 Ms RightWing, Ink // Aug 21, 2007 at 12:02 pm
And now for the news you can really use, stay tune and after a 15 minute break for our sponsors, we will take you live to Baruup, Alabama where a toad who can sing the National Anthem was discovered sitting at a bar stool slugging down Boiler Makers.
10 Darthmeister // Aug 21, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Fred Sinclair, when Carl Levin was born I think the doctors slapped the wrong end.
Get that kid a T-bone steak so at least the dog will play with him!
11 gafisher // Aug 21, 2007 at 12:26 pm
“… when Carl Levin was born …”
An unfounded assumption.
12 woodnwheel // Aug 21, 2007 at 12:28 pm
Heirborn: Re. #7, I read this just today:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/thehealthnews.html?in_article_id=476607&in_page_id=1797
(Sorry for the URL instead of a link, the “A HREF” tag wasn’t working for me.)
The piece is titled “The tantalising design flaws of our bodged bodies.” I was tempted to just laugh it off, as I consider my spina bifida (a “birth defect”) to be more of a blessing than a curse. But after reading your post, I must agree: People like Senator Levin often make folks like Chris Burke (http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0121630/) look like Einstein. (By the way, that’s not a dig at Chris Burke — two of the most amazing people I’ve been privileged to know were guys with Down’s Syndrome.)
13 MargeinMI // Aug 21, 2007 at 1:48 pm
Levin has destabilized Michigan! You folks think Robert ‘Sheets’ Byrd and Fig Fat Teddy K. have been around for a while? Levin also is a card carriying member of the OFS (Old Fart Senate). He’s been there since I was in grade school-and that was quite a while ago!
14 onlineanalyst // Aug 21, 2007 at 2:10 pm
The ironic pity is that Levin has so much power as Chairman of the Armed Services Committee. Talk about the Peter Principle of ineptness.
Rush played a clip of Madame Hillary’s recent remarks to a veteran’s group gathering. Why these patriots didn’t pummel her with rotten tomatoes for her “well-modulated” hypocrisy, I will never know.
15 onlineanalyst // Aug 21, 2007 at 3:13 pm
As a senator from one of the more dysfunctional Congresses in history and the most corrupt and venal parties in that august body, Carl Levin directs much of his attention to the agenda of his constituency in Dearbornistan and not to the interests of his own nation.
Meanwhile, echoing Jawn Carry not so many years ago about his “special relations” with world leaders, Bill Clinton claims that international leaders with whom he has a glad-handing rapport are looking forward to working with his wife (in name only) Hillary if/when she becomes president. Kowtowing to fickle world opinion seems to be the operant philosophy of the King and Queen of Moral Relativism and Less-Than-Sovereign Nationalism. These two should be belting their angst out with Grace Slick: “When our ‘truth’ is found/ To be lies…”
Santini: Speaking of tunes, your prior thread’s lyrics made my day.
16 Possumtrot // Aug 21, 2007 at 3:41 pm
Oh, cool! I made it over here with one click of a button! HAL-9000 Mk. II is working again!
I have to put out a bleg [blog beg] for a ride to the proposed Scrapplefest. I have this sorta new van, and can handle the driving school and insurance fees, but the state’s got me hammered flat with the license reinstatement fee. I had too much fun with the Corvette; they’ve classified me a habitual violator, and the fee for rehabilitating my sinful ways is prohibitive.
My health is not the best, and this might be a last chance for an out-of-sight road trip to meet good folks face-to-face. I can come up with a pocketful of gas money, but the state of Georgia has decreed that I ran too far, too fast, for too long.
Maybe Carl Levin can scrounge me a ride. I’m not sure I’d get into a car with Ted Kennedy, however.
17 The Great Santini // Aug 21, 2007 at 5:53 pm
Smooth move, Ex-Laxâ„¢ Levin-calling on the Iraqis to dump Maliki if he doesn’t deliver the goods by some arbitrarily stated time. Kind of like the Defeatocrat clamor for a troop pullout by an arbitrary date, with the resulting surrender to a bunch of thug-murderers causing a bloodbath that would be far worse for Iraq than the intractable political problems Maliki faces.
Yup, calling for Maliki to go surely will provide stability to Iraq and lessen sectarian and ethnic tensions there.
What the world really needs is another Democrat hack politician MIAHP (Moron in a High Place), like Comb-over Carl, shooting his mouth off on what some other country, with a knife to its throat, should do.
Hey, Carl the Bozo:
* Replace Maliki with whom, exactly?
* Can you name the person or party that could walk on water by snapping his fingers and bringing about political consensus in Iraq you demand? If not, then shut up.
* Y’think, just maybe, that your ill-timed, ill-conceived, and unsolicited remarks might actually encourage more political dissension and tension in Iraq than that which already existed before you shot off your mouth? A: I’ll spot you the “y” and the “s”, but you’re on your own for the missing letter that will complete this one-word answer.
* If you’re a Shia/Sunni/Kurd politician in Iraq, how do your boneheaded remarks provide an incentive to political unity? Don’t they have the opposite effect?
[OLA--glad your day was made by that parody of a classic tune by The Platters. Yowza....]
18 woodnwheel // Aug 21, 2007 at 6:27 pm
I forgot to mention this earlier: a couple weeks ago somebody in New York (no surprise) suggested that Iraq should go back to a dictator — no lie! Read about it in the Telegraph via this link: http://tinyurl.com/2ugrml
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